Category Archives: Decorations

— With special thanks to Funko — their Dorbz line — which I have zero permission to use.

I saw this Leatherface (from ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ — also, no permissions here) toy online years ago, and immediately thought of doing a photo like this, so bought it in what was certainly a bout of intoxicated Internet purchases. I finally got around to taking the photo thanks to me getting off my ass on one of those sunny days following a rare Seattle-area snowstorm…although such snowstorms have not been nearly rare enough over the past few weeks. Oh, yeah…not sure who manufactured the ice cube tray that allowed me to put these ‘ice ducks’ in the pic, but I don’t have any permissions from them either.

We’re breaking records for October rain here in this part of the world–as well as having just generally rotten weather–so much so that I kept blowing off putting up the decorations. I still haven’t gotten the lights set out–the big LED lamps that illuminate the whole Halloween display. I’ll get to that as soon as I’m done posting this…and well before I dry out from having just gone out to hang the new decorations. (Yep, taking it down to the wire, despite Halloween and tricks and treats falling on a school night plagued by terrible weather).

Both of the new pieces are based on drawings the kid did many years ago, when she was about five. Of course, there are modifications. I’d post images of the source material, but I didn’t ask her permission for that. Maybe later.

What is it?!? Isn’t it obvious?

So, the ten-armed creature here (which was a twelve-armed creature in its original form) is a random monster from the days when the kid would sit around drawing picture after picture, or very involved pictures with numerous characters. So far as I know, it has no name, and isn’t any particular kind of beast. I always envisioned it as floating about, or perhaps ‘swimming’ through the air. At any rate, it was made to hang from our plum tree. It’s about six-and-a-half feet tall. And, in case you’re wondering, yes, cutting something like that out of a single piece of 4′ x 8′ plywood is rather time-consuming.

With an actual, aged broom…y’know, for realism!

The witch here was taken from my favorite material object in the entire world…a construction paper haunted house that the kid made all those years ago, with numerous drawings of monsters glued to the outside. Her witch was standing, not flying on a broom. And I added the gym socks. But I think I retained the spirit of the original pretty well.

Well, it’s Elvismas time, pretty baby. And the snow is fallin’ on the ground…

In years past, I held Elvismas parties each year on Elvis’ birthday (January 8), as well as “Departure Day” parties, on the anniversary of Elvis…leaving us.

I won’t get into all the gory details right now, but will say that I do hope to get the house put back together enough to where I can get the shrine, or a version of it, put back up.

In years past, my dear friends over at Creepy Cult (see their web site–under construction–here: Creeps; or their Etsy page here: And Creeps; or their Facebook page here: And More Creeps–all with plenty of nifty things) would print up postcards for me on the occasions of the parties–at least when I got them the artwork on time and they had extra space on a print run to fit them in–because they’re cool like that, and because I’m cheap like that.

The image above is one such postcard from all the way back in 1993, when I devoted a bit more of my time to doing design work–if you want to call it that. Elvis had a twin brother, Jesse, who never got to see the light of day; and Elvis easily had enough cool for at least two people. So the image addresses that concept, along with Vernon Presley’s story that on the night of Elvis’ birth, he saw a powerful omen–the sky ringed in blue.

October has been a strange and busy month. I trust I’ll recover soon. Still, I got these done and added to the Halloween display. With special thanks to a good friend over at chucklingdog for the initial design/inspiration.